Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI

SARAH M. DUNNIGAN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on early modern literature, women's writing, and on twentieth-century Scottish literature and theory.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Incarnations of Eros PART I: THE MARIAN PERIOD Feminine Eros: Mary Queen of Sots and the Emergence of Desire Demonic and Angelic Women: The Erotics of Renunciation and Marianology in the Bannatyne Manuscript PART II: THE JACOBEAN PERIOD Fables of Eros: James VI and the Revelation of Desire Devotional Artefacts: John Stewart and the Eroticization of the Courtly Love's Alter: Alexander Montgomerie and the Erotics of Representation Heretical Love Words: The Poetry of William Fowler Conclusion: Love's End Index